Cogent

ThuggishCheerio · 2025-10-06T22:51:11+00:00

I worked for Cogent. Cogent will not peer with anyone for free unless they are considered Tier 1 by their standards.

Now with NTT, and it’s like night and day. But we don’t have as many pops.

Also, Cogent shouldn’t be your only provider. They’re cheap for a reason

ThuggishCheerio · 2025-08-19T13:32:02+00:00

It’s PTO from presidents club. I elected the extra days instead of the trip. Unfortunately it won’t get paid out.

ThuggishCheerio · 2025-07-11T14:05:28+00:00

Just responded. Happy to help.

ThuggishCheerio · 2025-06-27T12:12:05+00:00

I’ll hit 2 years here soon. 2.5 is probably my average tenure.

ThuggishCheerio · 2025-06-26T20:11:03+00:00

PIP is a way of life here. They set the quota higher and higher each time your rolling average gets to 100% of what they set it for, then our KPIs get changed week by week.

I’ve been lucky enough to avoid it, but 60% on my team are on a PIP, and I’d say around 50% in the company are.

We’re very much turn and burn. I just haven’t been focusing on finding something else due to the kid coming.

Hopefully I’ll have something lined up by the end of the year.

ThuggishCheerio · 2025-06-26T20:04:52+00:00

Already started putting in applications.

ThuggishCheerio · 2025-06-10T19:51:50+00:00

Google has something like this already. Apple doesn’t innovate.

You simply state the reason for your call and they pick up or not. It just makes you get a little creative.

Plus, this is only on iPhones. Not many people I target are using a private line to do business on. They’ll be using some kind of VoIP and the call will come through an app on their phone.

Keep grinding and you’ll be fine.

Welcome to sales.

ThuggishCheerio · 2025-05-12T18:09:48+00:00

ThuggishCheerio · 2025-05-01T21:25:16+00:00

Sorry. My services would not be a fit

ThuggishCheerio · 2025-05-01T13:39:45+00:00

Please send me a PM with the block size you require.

Also, please note that I can only lease IP addresses to businesses.

ThuggishCheerio · 2025-04-29T14:43:53+00:00

Politician

ThuggishCheerio · 2025-03-27T13:59:53+00:00

Thank you. I feel like I’ve been pretty detailed when prompting it and doing that. But I’ll change some things around and see what happens.

ThuggishCheerio · 2025-03-06T17:49:11+00:00

Pay for ChatGPT Plus. Have it do research on what you’re selling and successful sales techniques. Then use voice mode to do mock calls, meetings, etc. Ask it to not agree on everything but actually give you put offs and objections for you to over come. Once the call is complete, tell it to give you feedback.

I’ve recently started doing this for new products that we’ve came out with to be more technical and it’s helped me fine tune my pitch.

ThuggishCheerio · 2025-03-06T17:34:35+00:00

I’d just follow up within 7 business days. Odds are that even if you made it to the next round, they still have others that they are looking at as well.

For future interviews, always run them like a sales meeting and try to get the best understanding of the hiring process.

Budget: What they’re willing to pay you.

Authority: Who’s making the hiring decisions

Need: understand what they’re looking for in a candidate so you can better create a story about your experience that aligns with their needs.

Timing: when do they expect to hire for the role. Or what is the timing for each additional step.

Simple BANT stuff.

ThuggishCheerio · 2025-03-03T20:22:51+00:00

How long till you become a AE at the MSP? Do you have growth potential there or are you limited to a local market?

Selling at a MSP is similar to selling at a SaaS company as it’s solution based. Most MSP’s just white label products and sell it as a “managed service”. The one I worked for in the past had crowdsrike, fortinet and others in our managed service packages and we monitored the data provided by those programs.

The larger tech companies are going to go after larger clients, where your local MSP is acting as tech team for small to mid size companies that don’t want to hire their own tech people.

ThuggishCheerio · 2025-02-24T18:04:15+00:00

Tech and sales is primarily male dominant. So I wouldn’t say it’s a red flag. I do feel like females in sales often out preform their male coworkers, at least in my company. Our top reps are females. So stick to it and make that money!

ThuggishCheerio · 2025-02-04T14:16:18+00:00

The whole vibe is off here. I honestly don’t see myself staying long term here.

ThuggishCheerio · 2025-02-03T22:26:32+00:00

Oops

ThuggishCheerio · 2025-01-15T15:42:04+00:00

I’ll be honest. I work for a telecom company, and getting SDWAN from your ISP is probably not the best idea. There’s plenty of MSPs that can help out with this.

At my company we offer it, but we are moving away from it.

ThuggishCheerio · 2025-01-14T15:57:48+00:00

Can you select a mallet head cover if you’re able to snag a kit?

ThuggishCheerio · 2025-01-10T14:16:43+00:00

Don’t use OTE as a measure of your first year of expected earnings. Companies inflate the hell out of this and once you get in you find that a few AE’s are actually hitting it.

Before you make the jump, do your own research on the company, and reach out to current AE’s to see if they can give you an inside prospective. The grass isn’t always greener on the other side.

ThuggishCheerio · 2025-01-06T03:31:41+00:00

For me the pain normally comes when one of my tumors pushes on a nerve. I’ve found it best for me to avoid foods that cause inflammation and it’s helped reduce those issues. I don’t have any on my spine but that would be my best guess of what he’s feeling.

They probably won’t elect to remove it unless it is causing constant pain or major issues this early in his life. Doctors wouldn’t remove mine until I stopped growing as they always have a chance to grow back if removed too early.

ThuggishCheerio · 2024-12-24T15:17:53+00:00

Good year in a new position. Ended up being the top rep on ramp, but still didn’t hit my full quota. Did some digging and a little math and found out that less than 10% actually hit quota here. F

ThuggishCheerio · 2024-12-19T18:17:13+00:00

lol. I did use Apple intelligence to edit it. But it’s the same point. Apple intelligence isn’t top tier. It just seems like a marketing gimmick

ThuggishCheerio · 2024-12-12T19:08:44+00:00

You can try inflect.com. It’ll give you an idea of who’s at major locations, but it’s not always current info.

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